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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1986

February 1986

 
  • Ralph Burns
  • David Clewell
  • Stephen Corey
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Stephen Dunn
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Aerial in the Pines

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Championship Fight

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The Comfort of a Woman

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Table of Contents

  • Stephen Dunn
    • Aerial in the Pines
    • Sleeping with Ghosts
    • All That We Have
  • Dave Smith
    • Championship Fight
    • Driving Lesson
    • Careless Love
  • Ralph Burns
    • The Comfort of a Woman
    • Debris
  • Allison Funk
    • The Ghost of Elinor Wylie
    • Forms of Conversion
    • Elegy ("To endure this place...")
  • Molly Peacock
    • The Choice
    • Prayer
    • Commands of Love
  • Tom Sleigh
    • M. On Her Thirtieth Birthday
    • Seventh Floor: Cancer Ward
  • David Clewell
    • Back to Life
  • Stephen Dobyns
    • Theseus within the Labyrinth
    • The Invitation
    • Cemetery Nights V
    • Querencia
  • Marie Howe
    • Apology
    • Lullaby
  • Barry Goldensohn
    • The Toy
Short Reviews
  • Vernon Shetley
    • Short Reviews
    • Singing, by Dennis Schmitz
    • Other Lives, by Christopher Buckley
    • The Near World, by Carl Dennis
    • No Heaven, by David St. John
    • Facing Nature, by John Updike
    • New Selected Poems, by Howard Moss
    • Late Settings, by James Merrill
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  • David Clewell
  • Stephen Dobyns
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  • Dave Smith
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